Pedagogical Database

The world is changing

There are new things we have to consider - not every weekday but every single day.
Stability and security at the things we know are qualities that no longer take priority.
Changeability, flexibility and priorities mark the new paradigm.
Here, the teacher and the teacher’s personality play a big part.
How does the European teacher receive this challenge on openness and changeability?

Is it a threat - or a challenge? How do we eliminate the internal as well as the external barriers?
This condition renders visible in the pedagogical database of euroREAD from three pedagogical challenges and research aspects that will be made available to the teachers.

• Information and communication technology
• Inclusive education
• Reading literacy

The pedagogical database contains soft information on hypotheses, national observations and observations of a subjective nature that draw attention to differences among national teaching staff and which can be attributed to recruitment, further training and professional organization.

EuroREAD will develop a database capable of registering information relating to factors deemed necessary in connection with establishing teachers' possibilities for changing their pedagogical practise, and factors describing teachers' ability to change this practise. The factors can be divided into the following areas.

• School-home collaboration
• Collaboration among teaching staff
• Teacher co-operation generally
• Shared assessment
• Inter-collegial assessment
• Assessment of pupils´ results and development

One can describe most of these factors as "soft personality values" and values which are therefore difficult to make visible and measure. For this reason the database must collect information directly from the teachers, in the form of questionnaires (evaluation), and analyses of project results, which have been achieved and described by the teachers themselves.

The database will be accessible at the end of February 2000